blue b4 the moon
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FFS as I put it on City concede.
* Edit....1-1 after 15 mins could be a goal fest.
* Edit....1-1 after 15 mins could be a goal fest.
Melbourne City FC Thread
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blue b4 the moon
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Obviously you know it's game day again today (here in the UK 9.00).
Can you put some meat on the bones re the bad press that City, Goode & Maclaren are getting the blame in the press for the international failure please.
The socceroos performance against Japan was woeful.
Fundamentally the issue is that A League did not schedule international breaks, basically because of the continual reshuffle of fixtures.
Arnold (socceroo coach) had named a 50 player list of required players. This included players playing in Europe. Good wasn't named.
Leading up to the Japan game players were dropping like flies, and a couple days before it was announced they wanted him. He was never going to start ahead of Degenek and Sainsbury. The club city basically blocked him. We had already released 4 starting players. Maclaren Tilio Metcalfe and Leckie. So the club basically refused a 5th.
Maclaren for months had announced he will unavailable for the away Saudi game next week because he was getting married, a wedding that had been postponed a few times due covid restrictions and lockdowns etc. So he was basically unavailable.
On top of all that he only got a few minutes against Japan. The anti City media went at Maclaren for being selfish and putting his club and personal needs before the country.
Fact is this bunch of socceroos are the worst in living memory and the coach is using tactics he played with Sydney FC 5 years ago, and at international level is laughable.
The best thing, Maclaren scored tonight and Leckie came of the bench and changed the game.
Our youngsters Metcalfe and Tilio have travelled to Saudi but being a dead rubber now, all the other A League players have been released.
As everything down here the organisation of the game is mind boggling.
Fundamentally the issue is that A League did not schedule international breaks, basically because of the continual reshuffle of fixtures.
Arnold (socceroo coach) had named a 50 player list of required players. This included players playing in Europe. Good wasn't named.
Leading up to the Japan game players were dropping like flies, and a couple days before it was announced they wanted him. He was never going to start ahead of Degenek and Sainsbury. The club city basically blocked him. We had already released 4 starting players. Maclaren Tilio Metcalfe and Leckie. So the club basically refused a 5th.
Maclaren for months had announced he will unavailable for the away Saudi game next week because he was getting married, a wedding that had been postponed a few times due covid restrictions and lockdowns etc. So he was basically unavailable.
On top of all that he only got a few minutes against Japan. The anti City media went at Maclaren for being selfish and putting his club and personal needs before the country.
Fact is this bunch of socceroos are the worst in living memory and the coach is using tactics he played with Sydney FC 5 years ago, and at international level is laughable.
The best thing, Maclaren scored tonight and Leckie came of the bench and changed the game.
Our youngsters Metcalfe and Tilio have travelled to Saudi but being a dead rubber now, all the other A League players have been released.
As everything down here the organisation of the game is mind boggling.
billymumphrey
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There's also a quite pathetic Sydney/Melbourne rivalry that runs as an undercurrent in "Aussie Sokkah" which also plays into the narrative and reporting. Those Sydney aligned journos would have been looking for a scapegoat to deflect from the criticism that was going to be directed towards Arnold (the 'Sydney Mafia's' Golden Boy), so City/Jmac/Good were an easy target.
Put simply, even if Maclaren and Good played from the start, it would have made zero impact to the result. Australian football is just simply not good enough.
I actually think the existence of the A League has considerably weakened the quality of our national team. And the suggestions touted to address it (promotion/relegation/more teams) are only going to make things worse.
As champions last season we now get automatic entry into Asian Champions League group stage. This year in Thailand over a few weeks. Some KO times will be challenging.
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AFC Champions League Group Stage fixture confirmed
Little over two weeks remain until we make our ACL Champions League debut, and kick-off times for all six Group Stage fixtures have now been confirmed.
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Gabriel
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Well that was an impressive/surprising second-half display, with Curtis Good certainly living up to his surname. Don’t think I’ve ever seen Melbourne City play so directly from back to front, most unusual, but worthy winners.